“After the police killing of George Floyd in May 2020, Minneapolis has become a symbol to the world of the police brutality that black people have long suffered disproportionately. [La ville] later became the epicenter of the Defund the Police movement [‘Coupez les crédits à la police’]which caused a real cultural earthquake”, recalls the site of CNN.
Since then, the city has been experiencing a form of backlash, a complex situation explored by the site of the American chain in a long article. The idea of cutting the police service fizzled out. Crime has risen sharply with 93 murders last year, twice as many as in 2019 and not far from the 1995 figure, which earned the city the sad nickname of Murderapolis (“City of Murder”). And the crisis of confidence between the police and residents has only deepened.
The reasons for this increase in crime “are far from clear”, precise CNN. The pandemic is an important factor: children deprived of school “have gone adrift”.
Neighborhoods abandoned by the police?
Some residents also claim that the police “retired from neighborhoods plagued by violence after the murder of